The daffodils were executed in pen and ink combined with tones of a rolled-tissue brush without preliminary pencil work—with an underdrawing the artist loses the advantage of the freshness of risk taking: too many decisions are solved ahead of time, everything is visually too safe and secure, too posed and poised, and not as much of the artistry is revealed as in a direct, aggressive, confident problem-solving-hand/eye-attack-as-you-go.
If an image has narrative the story I most want it to relate is the visual directness of how the artpiece is constructed.
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